cover art by Robert Stanley
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Francis K. Allan, “What Makes Sammy Kill?”
Thorne Lee, “It’s in the Bag!”
Jimmy Nichols, “Cops Are Born”
Robert Turner, “Party to Murder!”
John D. FitzGerald, “Too Mean to Live!”
Arthur Leo Zagat,“Death-Dance of the Broken Dolls”
Talmage Powell, “Blood in Your Eye!”
Cyril Plunkett, “Deadly Is My Sleep”
Wilbur S. Peacock, “Copperhead”
Dale Clark, “Corpses, Incorporated” (Socrates Bean)
Jhan Robbins, “The Waxwork Wake”
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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H.H. Stinson, “Slay Binge” (Pete Rousseau)
Robert Martin, “G.I. Doublecross” (Jim Bennett)
Dale Clark, “Corpse on Parade” (High Price)
Thorne Lee, “The Whisperer”
Ralph Eldred, “Death Watch”
Ken Lewis, “This May Hurt a Little”
cover art by Albert Drake
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Thorne Lee, “The Hill to Die”
Hank Napheys, “The Bloodbank Killings” (reprint from 1943)
John Bender, “Room for Murder”
Alvin Yudkoff, “Stand-in for Death”
Robert Turner, “Slay Belles”
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Frederick C. Davis, “Some Like ‘Em Dead”
Julius Long, “On the Homicide of the Street” (C.D. Mort)
Henry Norton, “Once Upon a Tomb” (Pinero Pershing)
William R. Cox, “Objective – Murder!” (Malachi Manatee)
Thorne Lee, “Death in the Groove”
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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Frederick C. Davis, “Open the Morgue, Richard!” (Thackeray Hackett)
Thorne Lee, “A Corpse Slept Here”
James Howard Leveque, “A Share in the Slaughter”
Mark Mallory, “Killer Take All”
Don James, “I’ll Never Slay Again”
Charles Larson, “Brat’s Brew o’Murder”
Robert Turner, “Crime Doesn’t Play”
cover art attributed to Rafael DeSoto
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Robert Martin, “Death Under Par”
Thorne Lee, “Married to Murder”
D.L. Champion, “Suitable for Framing” (Mariano Mercado)
Ken Greene, “A Red-Headed Clue”
Larry Holden, “A Corpse to his Credit”
Arthur Leo Zagat, “Grim Reaper’s Model”
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
~ Thorne Lee, “The Mad Dog of Lame Creek”, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ Julius Long, “Forgive Not Our Trespassers”, 11th of 17 stories with ‘Ben Corbett, D.A.’s chief investigator, 1st -person narrator’, 16th of 23 stories in BM
~ Dick Pearce, “Homicide Hangover”, ‘Major Bill Boyle, just back from WWII’, only appearance in BM
~ H.H. Stinson, “You’re the Crime in My Coffin”, ‘Gerry Fowler of Fox, Fox, Shapiro & Fox, law firm’, 22nd of 27 stories in BM
~ Fergus Truslow, “The Killing Was Mutuel”, ‘Private snoop Galahan around Del Mar (California)’, 3rd of 6 stories in BM
~ K. Webster, “One Fall for Murder, ‘Steve Ransom, reporter; wrestling story’, last of 3 stories in BM
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop
[cover updated 1/29/26]
cover art by Albert Drake
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debut issue, 1950s UK version of Ten Detective Aces
[updated 7/19/25]
SMB Noir 
